Facebook is opening up its API resources for its media partners. The social network has launched ‘Public Content Solutions’, a program aimed at offering initially limited API resources to selected partners.

Google’s Analystics service has been immensely popular among developers for a long while now. The search giant has now dished out the beta of a real-time API for the Analytics service, which will essentially let developers keep a close eye on the data from Analytics.

The military use of drones to exterminate alleged terrorists has been fiercely debated in the recent past. Dronestream is a service that essentially aggregates all the historical data of drone strikes, as well as post updates in real-time about the latest strikes. A new API of the service now lets developers make extensive use of it.

Ubuntu is incorporating WebApps feature to its next version of OS. They are integrating this feature in the Ubutu Desktop to make the dying Linux Desktop live again. Already few months ago, cloud service has been featured in the Desktop. The feature will introduce popular Internet services and Websites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and many more as desktop applications.

Skyhook is a very well-known name in the location services industry. It has now rolled out version 4.6 of its mobile SDK. The new version comes with a whole lot of new features. Among these, one feature that seems very interesting and exciting is that of ‘in-flight location.’

If you don’t know your birth year or can’t remember what your age is, then you are supposed to be worried. Isn’t it? But don’t worry, when face.com’s facial recognition software is with you. Face.com has invented a software that can recognize you with a photo of your face and can tell your age and gender. It means, you don’t have to undress a baby to know whether it is a boy or girl. Just take a picture of the baby, use the face.com’s facial recognition software and know the age and gender of the baby. That’s pretty cool.

Nike+ had just revealed their latest product name FualBands. This FualBands measures your everyday activity and turens it into NikeFuel. It also tracks each steps and calories burned. If that dosesn’t impress you, it’s also a great watch. It works with a devoted iOS app to measure a wearer’s daily activity levels such as time, calories burned, steps taken etc.

Nike+ FuelBand app helps you to track everyday activity and turens it into NikeFuel. Even it also tracks each steps and calories burned. With the app you can compete with yourself, or share results with your friends to compare, compete and celebrate. Nike+ FuelBand is developed by Nike, Inc. This app is now free for all and you can download this app from iTunes under the Health & Fitness category.

Google+ developer advocate Chris Chabot announced that the first Google+ APIs are now available to the public and the complicated matter of circles and their varied level of permissions is an issue to be tackled at a later date. Developers need to register their apps before they can hook up with Google+ and start making calls to public feeds. There are a few different use cases where this could be employed and Google’s left it up to you guys to make it happen and this the only API available for the time being, but Google has mentioned they will be bringing many more Google+ APIs in the near future…………….

AT&T set up shop in Silicon Valley on Wednesday with its Foundry Development Center in Palo Alto, a facility where software and hardware developers can get help bringing their inventions to the real world, the site is AT&T’s third Foundry Innovation Center, following ones opened earlier this year in Plano, Texas, and in Israel. The AT&T Foundry centers represent an $80 million investment from AT&T and it is part of the company’s innovation strategy, which will see the 135-year-old communications giant work with third party developers, venture capitalists and technology solution providers…………….

Adobe announced the launch of an early preview version of a new application called Adobe Edge, which is designed to allow web developers to easily create animations and other motion-based content using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript and this tool will kill Adobe Flash. It’s the first professional-grade HTML5 editing tool on the market and is currently available for free. dobe is positioning the new software as a complement to its Flash and Dreamweaver offerings for Web-based content production………………

Face-recognition features will be available to developers creating apps for iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s software for the iPhone 5 and next iPad, which included in the iOS 5 application programming interface (API) so app developers can add face-chasing features to their games and apps. The API supports a call to mouthPosition as well as left and right eye positions and there are no clear examples of these API calls in the OS itself but developers could……………

For the future, Google know that creating a platform for developers to build on is a necessity for creating stickiness and building user participation in their new social venture Google+. Now a great news come from TNW, that developer Kosso has created Plusbar, a stunning streaming media player for Google+ and this enhancement adds an audio and video player to the top of your stream…………

Google has hinted at releasing a developer API for its newly launched social networking platform Google+ and this platform is currently going through a beta trial on an invite only basis, has been designed to bring a user’s entire web experience under one roof, making the web a more social place. Google+ is the company’s latest attempt to take on the social networking giant Facebook and the company recently announced that it had to temporarily halt the invites for Google+ amid insane demand…………

Microsoft releases Android developer poaching package for Windows Phone 7 and the little fellow helped iPhone devs out a couple of months ago with an API mapping tool to make it easier to translate iPhone APIs to WP7 code. With the next version of Windows Phone Mango, bringing along with it a ton of new APIs, it looks like Microsoft won’t have to worry about the size of its Windows Marketplace…………

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